by poonam | Jan 29, 2013 | Awards
By Editors NWMI member Sarada Lahangir receives jurors’ special commendation, Jyotsna Rautray wins award at State Book Fair Odisha based journalist Sarada Lahangir of ANI was recently commended by the Jury for the Media Foundation’s 2012 Chameli Devi Jain Award....
by poonam | Sep 12, 2012 | Statements
Lakbima cartoon: a new low for misogyny in the print media We, the undersigned, condemn the sexist portrayal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a cartoon by Hasantha Wijenayake published in the Sri Lankan daily...
by poonam | May 29, 2012 | Blogs, Features
By Editors Each year, the US-based International Women’s Media Foundation honours women journalists who have shown extraordinary strength of character and integrity while reporting the news under dangerous or difficult...
by poonam | Apr 24, 2012 | Statements
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), strongly condemns the violent and sexist abuse unleashed on poet, writer, activist and translator Meena Kandasamy, presumably in response to her posts on Twitter about the beef-eating festival at Osmania University,...
by poonam | Mar 2, 2012 | Chapter News, Network News
By Editors In Riots and After in Mumbai: Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliations (Sage Publications, 2012), Meena Menon (deputy bureau chief and deputy editor, The Hindu, Mumbai) intersperses her observations as a reporter on the 1993 communal riots with narratives of...
